Letters to the Editor

December 1, 1989 in Grace in Focus Articles

I have recently been introduced to your GES newsletter. I have been a Christian one year now and it is refreshing to hear a clear presentation of the Word of God as well as Christian living. . . .

There seems to be different trains of thought on assurance these days. My only hope of heaven is in the finished work of Jesus Christ and as far as I can know anything for sure, I am trusting in nothing else. Yet according to so many messages it seems that one cannot know he’s saved unless you behave in a certain way. . . .

God continue to bless you and your ministry.

Yours in Christ,
GBC,
Tampa, FL

What a great testimony of faith in Christ alone!
-Ed.

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